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McKinney to add police officers to middle schools

When classes resume in McKinney tomorrow, full-time school resource officers will be at each of the five middle school campuses.

The police department and school district announced the new security measure on Monday. This comes just a few weeks after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut in which 20 students and seven campus staffers there were killed by a gunman.

Various school districts across North Texas have beefed up security measures or are reviewing plans as a result of that tragic event.

“The SROs are the best liaison between the police department and the school district, giving students, faculty and staff full-time access to our officers,” McKinney police chief Joe Williams said in a news release.

Since the Sandy Hook incident, patrol officers have been making daily stops at each elementary school within McKinney city limits, which includes 20 in the McKinney school district, one in Prosper and five in the Frisco district. That practice will continue, officials said. School resource officers are already on staff at each of the three high schools in McKinney.